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- adjective (Chem.) Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
methylate . - adjective
denatured by theaddition ofmethyl alcohol - adjective chemistry subject to
methylation
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- adjective having received a methyl group
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Examples
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The term methylated means that a substance has at least one special chemical group - called a methyl group - attached to it.
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I just use cotton buds soaked in methylated spirits.
Clean Your Earbuds For Better Sound And Hygiene | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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After two years, Clarke had figured out exactly where to place the cyclodextrin ring inside the nanopore to identify the passing bases.33 As an added bonus, the setup could also distinguish bases that have been methylated, that is, tagged with a small chemical group widely thought to be a crucial mechanism in regulating gene activity a field known as epigenomics.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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We shall be probably not far wrong in describing his material as a kind of methylated spirits; or pure psychic alcohol, strongly tinctured with the barks of trees, and rendered below proof by a quantity of sea-water.
Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book 1886
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yongguang Tao et al. 2010
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yongguang Tao et al. 2010
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yongguang Tao et al. 2010
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We identified here the mechanism of gene silencing, and found in 'methylated' WT cells Pol II stalling and in hypomethylated cells all the hallmarks of transcriptional elongation, including histone modifications and Ser2 Pol II transition and effective splicing.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yongguang Tao et al. 2010
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